Indiana Gov. signs "religious freedom" bill into law

Also, what if the writer/columnist in this hypothetical situation is black?

 

Federal law requires an employer to issue a religious accommodation to an employee if it can reasonably be managed.

 

Of course, someone refusing to do something for which they're receiving financial compensation is different than discrimination in the name of religion.

 

Which sounds like employees have more rights than business owners.

If I refused to repair a coffee brewer at Hamburger Mary's, it sounds like I could be in trouble, but I couldn't fire an employee who refused?

 

Of course you could. You're paying them for services they didn't deliver.

The two situations are not analogous at all.

 

When Muslim cab drivers in Minneapolis refused to pick up blind people who used service dogs, a "reasonable accommodation" was made where the next cab driver willing to take the blind passenger would take them, and the Muslim cab driver didn't lose his place in line.

And, while this sounds like a reasonable measure, isn't this "discrimination" against blind people in just the same way that not photographing a wedding would be "discriminating" against a gay couple?

Isn't it a withholding of services in a way that we're told should not be allowed?

 

We must be talking past each other.

Where do we disagree?

 

Didn't those cab drivers LOSE in court, multiple times? That's kind of the point here - people who do the same thing will have the power of law behind them.

 

I think MC's referring to the columnist as someone who's already been paid for his/her services. But he's treating the worker as someone who hasn't been paid yet.

 

Clearly YF needs to put his repairmen on salary. Then we'd all be on the same page.

 

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No pizza for you, GAYS!

 

Nice manipulation using a poster who has made his bigotry quite clear over the years. Point being, your post is a bit unfair because we would also have his history as a factor in judging his actions.